11 Quotes by Idries Shah about Generosity
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Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.
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Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
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Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.
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Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
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Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
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Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform
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Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.
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But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
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The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
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